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[Callista]

Yes, the SWOOSH is lovely. In a terrifying, bone chilling kind of way.

PJ - That is odd! Life is funny like that.
Issac - No, bragging would be saying "And now I'm at 13233! Go me!" But I wouldn't do that. How far along are you? And hey, even Baty's only at 17k.
Thoth - Management. Ew. Ewwww.

[Thoth]

Callista, on Nov 15 2007, 08:37 PM, said:

Thoth - Management. Ew. Ewwww.

"I spent my life climbing a mountain only to discover, when I reached the top, that I was on the wrong mountain."
-Anonymous Monk (no, it's not a spelling mistake.)

-Thoth.

(Hey, six figures a year and bankers hours. To a Bronx boy it was a damn pretty mountain.)

[Callista]

Thoth, on Nov 15 2007, 06:39 PM, said:

(Hey, six figures a year and bankers hours. To a Bronx boy it was a damn pretty mountain.)

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler...

[Isaac]

Thoth, on Nov 15 2007, 03:13 PM, said:

BTW: I've been privy-to/cursed-by a great deal of management training. The 1990's saw a trend where all managers were told to shorten all project timetables by at least 10% so all project personal could have at least one black mark against them, and the company would have a legal basis for termination should the budget require it.

That's awesome! I'll have to remember to do that when I do a startup.

Evily yours,
IF

[Thoth]

Isaac, on Nov 16 2007, 12:25 PM, said:

That's awesome! I'll have to remember to do that when I do a startup.

I preferred to use the Ghost Req (sometimes called a Ghost Post), where a requisition for unneeded personnel is kept open so it could be closed in lieu of a termination. It doesn't save the company any money, just a piece of the manager's soul.


Recovering evil-doer,
-Thoth.

[Thoth]

Callista, on Nov 16 2007, 01:51 AM, said:

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler...

Laughing out loud,
-Thoth.

[Callista]

[Steve]

Callista, on Nov 15 2007, 10:51 PM, said:

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler...

Maybe we should send Thoth to Storage B?

[Thoth]

Steve, on Nov 16 2007, 07:33 PM, said:

Maybe we should send Thoth to Storage B?

I Am Curious (Thoth)*

*"Jag är nyfiken - Thoth" in Swedish. Come on, please tell me I'm not the only one here who remembers "I Am Curious (Yellow)".

[Steve]

Thoth, on Nov 16 2007, 07:32 PM, said:

I Am Curious (Thoth)*

Have you seen Office Space?

[Thoth]

Steve, on Nov 16 2007, 10:38 PM, said:

Have you seen Office Space?

Bill Lumbergh: Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?

Milton Waddams: Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler.

Actually, I had a pretty nice corner office at Wall Street and Water Street. And nobody took my stapler if they knew what was good for 'em. Still, I'd rather have worked from home.

Yeah, I saw it. Dilbert does it better.
-Thoth.

[Isaac]

Thoth, on Nov 16 2007, 08:57 PM, said:

Bill Lumbergh: Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?

Milton Waddams: Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler.

Actually, I had a pretty nice corner office at Wall Street and Water Street. And nobody took my stapler if they knew what was good for 'em. Still, I'd rather have worked from home.

Yeah, I saw it. Dilbert does it better.
-Thoth.

This is so strange. I thought I read this and you asked, "What's storage B?" Then I came back and it was totally different. I know you'd never go and change your posts, so I must be imaging things...

IF

[Thoth]

Isaac, on Nov 17 2007, 01:06 AM, said:

This is so strange. I thought I read this and you asked, "What's storage B?" Then I came back and it was totally different. I know you'd never go and change your posts, so I must be imaging things...

Gee. I guess all those long writing nights have taken their toll.

Nah. I remembered only after I posted.

Change is the essence of evolution. (Well, that and natural selection.)

-Thoth.